Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0040 Chapter

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Kaia POV

The walk is longer than I expected. Or maybe it's just knowing who is at the end of the hike.

When Hector said he would prepare warriors I thought maybe no more than 5...20 is a little excessive.

Hector doesn't know that Than needs me to be alive, needs me to be safe. He just needs me to be safe in the Amber Desert pack, safely tucked away. "Are you sure about this?" Hector asks as we walk side by side to one another.

they

his warriors."

"Yes...he has offered to withdraw his "Hhmm I'll believe that when I see it." "Meto Me too, too, but it's the first step to getting them away from your borders, giving your pack members their freedom back. This can't go on for much longer." The Dark Phantom pack members had been very understanding of Hector's orders and curfew restrictions. But soon will will start to complain, start to o take matters into their own hands if their alpha doesn't take action. And that is what frightens me, I don't want another example of what happened to Rosa. I would never forgive myself.

I can smell him before I see him.

The sickly feeling of regret hitting me as I can feel the small buzz of the mate bond trying to pull me to him. Why did I come, he'll try and use it to his advantage like he always does. It's funny, I hadn't missed the feeling of the bond from Than, Hector's already taking preference in my opinion. 1

I stop in the middle of a clearing, trees surrounding us that block most of the mid day sun, providing natural coverage that would be ideal for concealing oneself.

Hector pulling me back slightly

into the clearing, his hair grown out since the last time I saw him. His red hair growing from the buzz cut

under no illusion that this would have been a mistake, that he would explain and

Our

was before I

to hatred and pity for the alpha male before me. My skin crawls when I think of the plans we made, the way

finding the

would withdraw your warriors if I came and heard

did.

keep

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at me like I was that gullible teenager again. "Kaia, enough of this. You are my wife and will return. You

because you have been in breach of it

me for my return outburst. Only for Hector to pull me behind Ezra and

no intention of honouring

still feels odd to have

a select few in my birth pack. Father was always so protective of me having lost Mother at my

the pack was attacked and I was sent away, I lost the link to Father's pack, whatever was left of it,

I joined his pack. Now I know why... he would have seen it as some kind of twisted deception to her. So much now was making sense of what Than did or didn't do. "What